Re: strange things are happening
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- Subject: Re: strange things are happening
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:39:27 -0400
Well, Donna,
With your generally mild winters, you could pot those cuttings and leave
them outside all winter, simply throwing something over them if an ice
storm threatened...and yes, those very well could be "future flowers" for
you....personally, I find it almost impossible to just throw out something
trying to root; might kill it once I've potted it on, but pot on I usually
do:-)
Only care you'd have to take of them would be to make sure they didn't dry
out...you could bury the pots up to the rim in a flowerbed in a protected
spot (from winter winds), with fairly soft soil - easy to work to dig them
in. Considering that you aren't "trying" to grow them, they would probably
grow like mad:-) If they didn't make it, you've lost very little effort in
the long run.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: James & Donna Davis <dsdavis@intop.net>
> Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:33 AM
>
> Marge
>
> Mississippi is extremely hot, humid, and also dry. funny you should
> ask about our winters, my neice and I were discussing the weather just
> this week and she made the statement that she hoped the temp droped
> below 90 before Christmas.
> This past January we had temps mostly in the 60's and 70's Feb. was
> about the same, in March I put broccilli plants in the ground and I
> also put my calla lilies in pots. my iris bloomed in April.
> we do have some cold weather at times, We have had ice storms for the
> past 2 years and it will cripple this area for a few days and then it
> could be in the 60's and 70's
>
> we could be wearing shorts one day and the next day have to drag out the
> sweats again. so it's a toss-up we just have to go with the flo.
> every year my royal star magnolia and my saucer magnolia get in full
> bloom and we have and artic blast come through and then I have brown
> blooms.
> I had petunias last year that didn't die they were pretty and green
> all winter.
>
> I wished I lived in an area where the weather made some kind of sense
>
> oh well, I don't know yet what I'm gonna do with these hydrangeas.
> all I wanted was a nice arrangement for the winter and you see what I
> got. I may just cut the roots off and stick them back in the
> vase "that would solve my problem" of course I don't know if
> I can bring myself to do that. those could be flowers one day you
> know that don't you?
>
> Donna in NE Mississippi zone 7
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